Following very successful conferences on Titanium and Magnesium, DGM has extended the topics of its conference series on non-ferrous metals by launching the first international conference on Aluminium.

The lecture programme will cover subjects ranging from the development of alloys to processing techniques and application. But also innovative near-net-shaping processes such as casting and forming will be given broad consideration. Fields of application particularly address the aircraft and automotive industry. Simulation and modelling of both materials properties and processing steps will demonstrate how to optimise and to speed up industrial production processes. Recycling and environmental aspects will be referred to as an integral part of each of the application areas. Not last, however, tailoring materials for purpose by specific manipulation of microstructures, will be in the focus of the conference programme. This includes aluminium based composite materials and increasingly the combination of aluminium with other materials. Joining and surface engineering processes will complete the range of challenging subjects.

Both industry and academia have contributed to the conference programme with their latest developments by submitting more than 130 papers. Each submitted paper will be presented as both a short lecture and a poster that will be individually discussed in a subsequent poster session next to the lecture hall. The papers make up four major topics that will be introduced by specific keynote lectures followed by a number of highlight lectures.